America, in your polarizing debate over which year marks the real beginning of the U.S. — 1619 (slavery’s arrival) or 1776 (Declaration of Independence) — you’ve got the dates all wrong ...

TORRINGTON — In the mid-1800s, Torrington was home to a craftsman who put the United States on the map as a producer of guitars. The shop, owned by James Ashborn, was on Newfield Road. Between ...

On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the foothills of ...

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 Daniel Walker Howe, . . Oxford Univ., $35 (904pp) ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7.

This extraordinary contribution to the Oxford History of the United States series is a great accomplishment by one of the United States' most distinguished historians. In a book that every student of ...

Battlefront.com has signed a publishing agreement with Hungarian wargame developer Hussar Games to bring its turns based strategy game 1848 to North America, for free.